Event Calendar

Events for Sunday, August 4, 2019

DISCOUNT FAMILY FUN DAY: Differences Are Beautiful Day1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Join Cleveland’s community heroes and ambassadors from JFSA’s Horvitz YouthAbility program for a special performance created by young adults with disabilities who break down barriers through community outreach and the power of positivity. Then, hear local child author, Gabe Feinberg, read his children’s book about his friendship with Jack Cummings, who has autism, and their shared love for flying. A book signing follows the reading.Location:
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood, OH 44122

Music of American Immigrants — Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Music of American Immigrants — Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble
企城唐人街歷史音樂會
2:00 p.m., Sunday, August 4, 2019
Main Library Auditorium
Lakewood Public Library
15425 Detroit Ave.
Lakewood, Ohio
Free and open to the public

For the final performance in the Friends of Lakewood Public Library's "Music of American Immigrants" series, the Cleveland Chinese Music Ensemble (featuring special guest Sifu Mark Lee Pringle) will explore the musical heritage of Cleveland, Ohio's Chinese community in a new multimedia presentation weaving together music, stories, archival photographs, audio, and video spanning 150 years of history.

Adding special historical resonance to this program, the ensemble's musicians (by the kind permission of Cleveland Chinatown Development LLC) will use several century-old musical instruments that have been preserved in the former headquarters of the Cleveland chapter of the On Leong Chinese Merchants Association in the historic Rockwell Avenue Chinatown neighborhood, recreating the vibrant sound of early Cantonese opera that was so beloved by Cleveland's first Chinese settlers.

Additionally, Cleveland historian Alan F. Dutka, the author of the 2014 book "AsiaTown Cleveland: From Tong Wars to Dim Sum" (which served as a great source of information and inspiration for this program) will be in attendance, and copies of his book will be available for purchase and signing.

The historic photographs featured this program are used courtesy of the Cleveland State University Archives Photo Collection and the Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.